We Americans love our things. I’ll admit it. I spent this weekend running around frantically, on a mad mission to find the perfect gift for two special people on their birthdays. I drove across town several times as I searched for the perfect item. At one point during the day, I got so stressed by [...]
Frederic J. Baur honored by his peers
Andy Warhol’s tomato soup can design revolutionized the world of Art and Advertising when it first smiled at a customer on the shelf of a grocery store. No one then imagined that Campbell’s destinity was sealed to Posterity. Few years later, a very personalized, identifiable potatoe crisps container launched Pringles to perennity. Its author Frederic [...]
the new wheel
More than 5,000 years after the invention of the wheel, Dutch artist Theo Jansen gives us a new wheel, and one that can walk on sand. Anyone that has tried to ride their bicycle on the beach knows the basic wheel can have it’s serious drawbacks. The artist’s amazing moving sculptures are made of hollow [...]
jansen, the new da vinci?
Born from the Russian constructivism, Art that allies ingeniously advanced technology and engineering, kinetic art adopted motion as its driving force to differentiate itself. Strictly powered by wind, a motor or anyone, we flirt with the realm of science-fiction! Among a large choice of sculptors, our attention captured in our nets of curiosity, atypical animated post-historic [...]
The iron fist of Berlin
As Berlin explodes into a hot spot for contemporary art, The Biennial, which opened in early April, takes the opposite tack. Its title, “When Things Cast No Shadow,” suggests that “the visitor should look at the work itself, not the shadow, the hype, surrounding it.” Either way, the imagery is powerful. More on the 5th [...]
leave me alone
Research says the average person receives anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 advertisements a day. We’re bombarded with it everywhere we go. The messages are from companies, stating a fact like how desirable their product is, and why you want it. They’re telling you something, and you’re expected to listen. In this communication, there is no [...]
Nicola Collection jungle[8]—ified
Courtesy of the jungle[8] gang, fine art purveyor Nicola Collection has a new brand identity. Already blessed with excellent infrastructure, Nicola Collection now has the means to make authentic connections with their audience with a new brand strategy, brand positioning and memorable designs. It was a privilege for us to write the following homepage description [...]
One Sheet
I recently stumbled upon this collection of paper sculptures all made from cutting, scoring, and folding only a single sheet of paper, and I thought this stuff was simply too amazing not to be shared with the world. These pieces demonstrate a clever counterpoint between positive and negative space, and between two- and three-dimensional space; [...]
Artists At War
A New Web-Based Project Launches that Probes Creative Discontent — we thought this was worth mentioning. According to their site, “Artists At War asks artists to respond to the larger world and to reflect on their personal relationships to the war, its symptoms and causes. Knowing our hands do not reach the levers of global [...]
Freeze for the ART of it..
Imagine this. Busy life, hustle – bustle. All of a sudden 207 people frooze. That’s just what happened today at Grand Central Station in New York. “Frozen Grand Central” is a brilliant new mission by Improv Everywhere where 207 agents all froze in place at the exact same time for five minutes in the middle [...]